Antony Sequeira <myfullname@hotmail.com> wrote:
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| Peter Seibel wrote:
| > b) When parsing namestrings for a "unix-host", namestrings are parsed
| > in a way that is "culturally compatible"[1] with Unix. Since there is
| > no notion of file hosts as part of file names in Unix file systems
| > there's no syntax that makes sense to a Unix head for notating such a
| > thing.
| scp does use user@host:/path/to/file
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As does "rsync". And "tar" uses "host:/path", e.g.:
tar cvf my.dom.ain:/dev/nrmt1 .
-Rob
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